Vertica OnDemand Getting Started Guide HPE Vertica Analytic Database. Software Version: 7.2.x

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1 Vertica OnDemand Getting Started Guide HPE Vertica Analytic Database Software Version: 7.2.x Document Release Date: 12/15/2015

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3 Contents Introduction 5 Audience 5 Create An HPE SaaS Account 5 Order Services 5 Check Order Status 6 Download And Install Client Drivers 6 Install Vertica Client 6 Access The Database 7 Syntax 7 Example 7 Access The Management Console 7 Security 8 Backup 8 Vertica On Demand Available Features 8 Send Documentation Feedback 11 HPE Vertica Analytic Database (7.2.x) Page 3 of 11

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5 Introduction HP Vertica OnDemand combines the power of Vertica Analytics with the ease and flexibility of a cloud service. This guide describes the Vertica OnDemand setup process. Audience This document is for customers subscribing to (or trying) Vertica OnDemand. The document assumes that you are familiar with using Vertica. If you are need more guidance about creating, modifying and querying your Vertica database, the complete documentation set is available here: Create An HPE SaaS Account Saas.hpe.com is an online marketplace for a number of HPE software products and services, including Vertica and Vertica OnDemand. You must create an HPE SaaS account before you can purchase Vertica OnDemand or begin a free trial. If you have already signed up for Vertica OnDemand, skip this section. To create an HPE SaaS account: 1. Go to saas.hpe.com and click Sign In in the upper right corner. 2. Click Sign Up. 3. Enter your information. 4. Click Sign Up. Order Services To order Vertica OnDemand: 1. From the HPE SaaS home page, click the Products tab. 2. Select Vertica. 3. Choose one of the Vertica OnDemand offerings or sign up for a free trial. HPE Vertica Analytic Database (7.2.x) Page 5 of 11

6 Check Order Status Once you submit your order, Vertica provisions your cluster automatically. You can check on the status of your order in the My Products page of your HPE SaaS account. When your cluster is fully provisioned, HPE sends you an containing your cluster information with the subject line: Your Vertica OnDemand database cluster is ready for use. Note: Provisioning a cluster typically takes about one hour. While the provisioning process executes, you can continue by downloading the client driver you need to connect to Vertica. Download And Install Client Drivers Connect to your database using a vsql client to issue vsql commands and perform administrative tasks. You can also connect to your database from other applications using industry-standard client drivers (ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET). You cannot SSH into a Vertica OnDemand cluster. Download vsql and drivers from my.vertica.com. You can download the drivers individually, or as packages that contain ODBC, JDBC, and vsql clients. Note: The Windows client package does not include the ADO.NET driver. If you need this driver, you must download it separately. To download the individual drivers or client packages: 1. Navigate to my.vertica.com. 2. Sign In. If you do not have a My Vertica account, you can register for a Community Edition account for free. 3. Click the Downloads tab. 4. Select the appropriate package for your operating system and hardware. Install Vertica Client Once your download completes, install the drivers. For more information about installing client drivers, refer to the installing the Vertica Client Drivers section of the full documentation. HPE Vertica Analytic Database (7.2.x) Page 6 of 11

7 Access The Database Now that you have installed the Vertica client package, you can connect to your Vertica OnDemand cluster. To continue, you will need the cluster and credentials provided in your welcome . To connect to your Vertica OnDemand database: 1. Start the vsql client. 2. Connect to your Vertica OnDemand database using the -h statement. Syntax vsql -h clusterip -d databasename -U userid -w password Example vsql -h d verticanow -U ver w mypassword If you connect to the database successfully, you will see a vsql welcome statement. Access The Management Console You can use the Vertica Management Console (MC) user interface to manage and monitor your database. MC is set up and automatically configured as part of your cluster provisioning process. Your welcome provides the URL you should use to access MC, as well as the login credentials to your main MC account. To access MC: 1. In a browser, access MC using the URL provided in your Log in to MC using the provided credentials. Note: Your MC site uses a self-signed SSL certificate. Your browser may display a warning page because of this. Ignore the warning message about reaching an unsafe site. The warning is expected. After logging in, you ll be able to manage and monitor your Vertica OnDemand database. Your verticanow database is automatically created when your cluster is provisioned. You cannot create a new database from MC. HPE Vertica Analytic Database (7.2.x) Page 7 of 11

8 Security Vertica OnDemand provides comprehensive cloud security for you automatically with little further configuration. To prevent unauthorized access, you can assign privileges directly to users or to roles through a series of GRANT statements issued in the VSQL client. For example, you can create additional users and grant them various levels of access to your database. Additionally, a Management Console administrator (either you, or anyone you grant administrator privileges to) can grant MC users access to one or more Vertica databases through the MC interface. For more information about access control, see Managing Users and Privileges in the Administrator's Guide. Backup Vertica OnDemand creates backups of your cluster automatically. HPE SaaS performs a full backup of your database every day. You can restore your database from any daily backup point within the last 7 days. Vertica On Demand Available Features This guide supplements the full Vertica documentation. For more detailed information, refer to Some features described in the full documentation do not apply to Vertica OnDemand. The following table lists which features are currently supported. Feature Admintools Client Driver Access Command Line Access Create a New Databass Dbadmin Access Management API Available in HPE Vertica OnDemand? No Yes Yes No No No HPE Vertica Analytic Database (7.2.x) Page 8 of 11

9 Management Console Secure Shell Access vsql Client Yes No Yes HPE Vertica Analytic Database (7.2.x) Page 9 of 11

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11 Send Documentation Feedback If you have comments about this document, you can contact the documentation team by . If an client is configured on this system, click the link above and an window opens with the following information in the subject line: Feedback on Vertica OnDemand Getting Started Guide (Vertica Analytic Database 7.2.x) Just add your feedback to the and click send. If no client is available, copy the information above to a new message in a web mail client, and send your feedback to vertica-docfeedback@hpe.com. We appreciate your feedback! HPE Vertica Analytic Database (7.2.x) Page 11 of 11